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Message: [QUOTE="AZHuskiePop, post: 1732845, member: 1609"] Interesting side note on Andre Drummond We were being penalized with Scholarship reductions by the NCAA in part for a poor APR score in 2008 and a very complicated recruiting violation which was pretty bogus . A former team Mgr provided transportation to and paid for minor surgery for a kid who had already committed. Andre was a Connecticut kid who wanted to reclassify and play for UConn We did not have an available scholarship so he ended up as a walk on . There is some speculation that circumventing the NCAA punishment so outrsged Mr Emmert and his cronies that they invented the 4 year APR rule which retroactively used data from the 2008 year we were already being punished for as a personal vendetta against our HOF coach Jim Calhoun. Using current year data and dropping 2008 would have made us compliment The NCAA refused to use current data. This caused us suspension from the 2013 Final Big East and NCAA tournaments caused wholesale defections either by transfer or NBA When UConn lost in CR and Jim Calhoun retired it was generally viewed as the destruction of UConn basketball. UConn surprised everyone by amazingly coming back with a roster that on paper was decent but nothing more and winning the 2014 NCAA tournament. The Hungry Huskie comment of Shabazz Napier could never fully be understood without this context. A UConn fan without a hatred for the NCAA and sans a chip on their shoulder is not a real fan [/QUOTE]

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